The house of commons in the UK is the best training for politicians in the world

The house of commons in the UK is the best training for politicians in the world. They really screwed up by removing the king’s veto. We really screwed up by not persuading Washington to be a king. We both screwed up by not recognizing we’d created our houses as markets for commons, not a justification of majority rule. We both screwed up by not giving the lower classes and women their own houses. We both screwed up by not improving the structure of law, rather than rapidly expanding the content of it.

The industrial revolution just came early, and fast, and spread fast, and our old institutions were too poorly understood to adapt rapidly to the change. We failed.

We can correct it. But to correct it will take the organized application of violence to raise the cost of the currently immoral status quo to the point where our solution is preferable to the corruption of the present one.